Creative Manchester

uomcreativemcr.bsky.social

09 October 2026 12:09

Manchester Literature Festival returns from 9-25 October, and Creative Manchester and Centre For New Writing will be supporting an exciting series of events! 🎓For more information and to book tickets, visit the MLF website - https://ow.ly/gHbH50ZOcpX

Les Back

academicdiary.bsky.social

09 October 2026 12:09

Very sad news yesterday that BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed is to come off the air. Laurie Taylor has done an incredible service to us all by giving sociological ideas a space to be heard. This is a lovely conversation with him thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/may...

Des Fitzgerald

desfitzgerald.bsky.social

09 October 2026 12:09

<clearing half a day to write a linked-in post about this>

Rose Ruane

regretteruane.bsky.social

08 October 2026 20:46

Quite tricky not simply exploding with rage at the callous cruelty & gleeful stupidity of all this *gestures at everything* isn’t it? Difficult to keep from bursting into searing flames of apocalyptic anger & spontaneously spattering one’s atoms across the known universe like furious meat confetti

Lizzie Reed

lizziereed.bsky.social

08 October 2026 20:46

The pleasure of: "Is it Miss or Mrs?" "Dr" ...never really wears off.